Kate Hawkesby: What Delta Level 2.5 will look like for Auckland

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Sep 30, 2021 · 2m

I won’t be here next week because I’m off for a week of the school holidays; to my living room, like every other Aucklander, but before I go, I thought I’d make a prediction for Monday.

I still think, as I said the other day, that we’ll go to Level 2 in Auckland and Level 1 for the rest of the country. But it won’t be called Level 2, it’ll be a new bespoke arrangement, some version of a 2 with a cutesy catchphrase they’ll think up to try to make it sound fun; like Delta 2.5+ or something.

They'll just want to give us the illusion we're not in 3 anymore. It’ll include a hard boundary around…